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THE HONGKONG.

TELEGRAPH.

SIR OSWALD SNEERS TEST TUBE BABIES TWENTY-ONE TO-DAY.

AT DISRAELI

Tories at "Shrine of

Italian Jew"

AS OLD AS THE ROMANS

HISTORY OF A POPULAR

Paris, June 7.

marka

the of long-

HONGKONG STORE/

To-day, June 13, The Romans knew a thing or coming-of-age of one two about test-tube babies, accord.kong's best-known and most enter- establishments-Mackin- to Professor Jean-Louis Faure, prising

men's ·wear reputation is end of the department of gyne-tosh'e, Lid, the cology of the Paris Faculty of specialists, whore

known not only in Hongkong Medicine.

but throughout the East.

To mark

the event, Mackin. an artistic tosh's have fasued little brochure, in which is given brief history of the firm, to gether with a statement of the policy which it has consistently followed and which has won for it the high place which it occupies to-day.

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Sir Oswald Mosley, atung by Tory eriticism of his Blackshirt policy us "a foreign importation," has replied by attacking the Tories and his former hero-Disraeli.

The criticism of the Blackshirts.

"Anyway, ayringes similar to was made by Mr. Duff Cooper, the Instruments now used by Financial Secretary to the War French physicians were discover Offee, at Primrose League ed in the ruins of Pompell," he gathering, when it was pointed maintains, and the practice of arti- out that were Disraeli alive hu feial insemination has been known would be refused membership of to leading obstetricians in Europe the Fascint Party.

for the past fifty years.

Sir Oswald Mosley describes the Tory attack as the "best foke of the political year."

of

AN ITALIAN JEW "Disareli," he said. "was In whoas origin Italian Jehv

an family had for centuries lived on the the Southern shores Mediterranean.

He thought it was ludrierous for Conservative icaders to describe Fascism an a foreign import while they worshipped, at the shrine of An Italian Jew.

"In France," continues the Pro- fessor, artificial impregnation is done only for married women. I have never heard of a case where unmarried girl wanted to have child in this way. But I can see why an American girl, jealous of personal liberty and wanting to be able to think a child all her own might resort to this process.

Eugenie babies, said the

Flaunting superstition, the firm opened its doors on June 13, 1913, with Mr. F, A. Mackintosh and n staff of one-a coolic! How well the foundations were laid, and how assiduously the founder of the firm applied himself to its de- velopment, may be gathered from the fact that to-day the staff con- spesists of six Europeans and over

forty other employees.

cialist, conceived through art fcint means, are rare in France.

Conservatives, added Sir Oswald

"I know one married woman who Who was speaking at Appleby Westmorland) denounced the had a child by this means, by a young manhood of their own man whose identity was not re- period for "adapting to the Brit-sealed. The husband who was ish character the creed of the sterile, consented in order to make modern world while they danced bis

wife

care

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1934.

GAS EXPLOSION INQUIRY

MANAGER OF COMPANY GIVES EVIDENCE

RADIO BROADCAST

BROADCAST.

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MAKERS

That the damage to the gas TO-DAY'S -holder was at a point near the end house of Chung Shing Street (No. 13): that the top flour of No. 13 Chung Shing Street was well alight within sixty seconds of the collapse and before Clarence Terrace was alight, and that the gas helder had been effected by the fire at this point. was the opinion expressed by Mr. II. E. Stone, general'kunnger and chlef engineer of the Hong- kong Gas Company, in the course of his evidence at the resumed 2.30-8.10 p.m. Variety and Dance inquiry into the West Point gasworks explosion before Mr. Song-Ev'ry Little While. Hamilton, sitting as Coroner, at Song-Try Gettin' a gond! Night's

Sleep. the Central Magistracy yester, day afternoon.

From ZBW on a wavelength of 356 metres (815 kilo-cycles).

4.30-7.30 p.m. Chinese Programme. 5-6.15 Concert.

The first witnesses for the afternoon were Brothers Tosta and Matterie, who were recalled, but their evidence was interpreted in such a low tone as to be inaudible to the Solleitors, Polles Officers att pressmen seated at the table in front of the Bench,

This evidence was followed by that of a Chinese boy, Wong Ka-luk, who was also recalled. Mr. Hamilton ask- ed bin. to give his evidence in story

and directed the interpreter to take it down in writing.

p.m. Children's Studio

7.30-10.30 p.m. European Pro- gramme.

8 p.m. Local Time and Weather Report,

Music,

Frances Maddux (Soprano). Fox Trot-Nice Goings On-Win Fox Trot-Nice, Goings On-What-

you here and me hare.

ever you do.

Debroy Somers Band.

Organ Solo-My Song Coen Reund Organ Solo-Byn Waterfall.

the World.

Frederie Bayce. Song--Lover Come Back to me

(The New Moon"). Fox Trut--Everything I Have ja

Lawrence Tibbett (Baritone).

yours.

Be portly dervishen before the method is used to give childless and skill, but rigidly adhering to form, without replying to questions. Fox Trot-Sing a Little Low-Down

altar of their Eastern obsolete chanting his Llans,"

Alded by his staff of specialists, Mr. Mackintosh, the Managing Director of the firm, with his 32 years' experience of fecal con- ditions, provides the driving force. happy. Usually the guiding the business with

his original policy of "Quality divinity couples infants, and the husband | First,"*"

In the father." incanta-

A feature of the policy laid Another French physician, Dr. down by the founder of the firm is Jean Ravina, of the stuff of the the promotion of a friendly yet | American Hospital, enid that “test-

#1* | not too familiar atmosphere

performed the necessary opera- Lion, it is not difficult. The onegut store, which is rightly claimed only to equal most London shops of Its trouble is that husbands usually kind and the most up-to-date in done. Arti- the Far East. The firm works on ficial fecundation is made when a

th principle would-be mother has a physical obstruction, or when Spermatozoa are found in too small quantity for normal impregnation."

APPENDICITIS UNKNOWN

But Solomon Islanders

Like Artificial Legs

Solomon Islanders never get appendleitis and rarely cancer.

This, in the opinion of 14. F. A. McPherson, who is in charge of

tube babies are possible. I have amongst the staff in the well-all-

object to having it

Ravina

The French gained this know- the Melanesion Mission Hospital ledge when trying to propagate at Malaita and who has just re-certain breeds of racehorses. Dr. turned to Sydney, is due to the suitability of the islanders' diet,

They are. however, very at native tracted by surgery. A woman, Dr. McPherson told Aus- tral News, had been supplied with an artificial leg, after an amputa-

tion, and so highly did the rest of the natives regard it that a man who had had a had leg from youth sought an operation and obtained n now leg.

The bulk of the doctor's work is in tropical diseases and. In treating the effects of falls from coconut

injuries trees, or

from Calling

coconuta.

APPENDIX OPERA-

TION

wilds

of

As this written evklence was not read out by the Coroner, Mr. W. A. MacKinlay, for the Gas

Company, later asked if they might have a copy of the witness's evidence nt the end of the proceedings,

Tenants Evidence.

Shek Kung, who was reskiing at 18 Chung Shing Street, ground that customers

floor, said that he heard n joud explosion us should have confidence in the

of a canor, and the glass windows judgment and ability of its staff. were shattered as If a typhoon was realising that it is of mutual nd- raging outside. As he was about to vantage for a customer to be ser leave the kitchen he noticed red by an assistunt who knows smoke become ignited. The smoke the buyer's taste, his sizes, and eume from the gasometer behind the even his idiosyncrasier.

parapet wall. Cooking was in pro- greas at the time,

explained. Prize, murer Skilled, quiet attention to cus- were impregnated in this way, and toners' needs, coupled with the later Doctors

tried the process Judicious display of first quality with humans and found it success-gods-this is the basis on which been the fym's Jub-Enited Prest.

reputation has built

Well-wishers

of the firm will join in congratulating all concerned on the attainment of its majority, and in wishing t all prosperity,

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CAPACITY

KIDNEYS MORE EFFICIENT

Daca an Australian aborigine need as much water while working a while man? To And the answer, Professor W. I Davies of Sydney journeyed 5,000 miles) to Central Australia and lived for a short time with the blacks,

He has just returned with his scientific curiosity antisfied. The Coutral Australian aborigine," said he, "requires as much, if not more, water than the European." His kidneys, he also discovered. are definitely more efficient than those of the white man.

KOBE COUNCIL EXACTION

FOREIGN PAPER'S PLANT ATTACHED

Tokyo, June 12.

Mr. Mackinlay: What do you use for cooking?-Firewood.

Do you use kerosene ?--No,

How was the house Righted ?-With electric lights.

Shek Kam, a sister of the witness, said she saw a volume of flame wheating out of the cook-house, BK on ruuning out she saw the flames at the front door of the house.

Fong Kwai-tso, who was residing at No. 10 Clarence Terrace, third floor, said n cloud of black smoke came into the house, and became Ignited. The fire was burning furiourly In the cubicle when he left.

Tune.

George Olsen and his Music Piano Sole-Plano Ple (No. 2).

George Scott Wood. 8-10-8.33 p.m. and Music. Marching with Sousa.

Regimental Band of H. M. Grenadier Guards. The Evolution of Dixie.

Regimental Band of H. M. Grenadier Guards. Entry of the Gladiators-March

(Fucik). Sons of the Brave-March

(Bidgood)

The Band of H. M. Coldstream

Guards. 8.33-9 p.m. Selections from Gilbert and Sulli- van's "Iolanthe". (Recorded under the direction of Rupert D'Oyly Carte).

1. Oh, Foolish Fas.

Bertha Lewis and Chorus of Girls, 2 Tho' Traps 1 May Incur your

Blame.

''

Winifred Lawson, Derek Oldham, Darrell Fancourt and Sydney Granville. 2. Bow, Bow, Ye Lower Middle

Classes

Chorus of Men, The Law is the True Embodiment. George Baker and Chorus of Men. 5. Fare Thee Well, Attractive

Stranger.

6.

Bertha Lewis and Chorus. Good Morrow, Good Lover--None

Shall Part Us.

Winifred Lawson and Leslie Handa,

7. Strephen's A Member of

Parliament.

8.

Mixed Chorus, When Britain Really Ruled

the Waves.

Darrell Fancourt and Mixed Chorus.

Leung Mul, a young girl, who was behind the counter of a shop at No.. 2 Clarence Terrace, ground floor, said she heard a loud bang, and then saw it is learned that the British flames blown through the door. She 9. In Vain To Us You Plead. Charge d'Affaires, Mr. Dood, hand-squatted down in terror. The Ran.es da Note to the Foreign Ministry at first ran over the floor of the shop.

May 31, stating the British Government's strong objections to the arbitrary steps which the Kobe Municipality is taking to enforce payment of alleged arrears of Mund- elpal taxes from the occupiers of perpetual leaseholds in Kobe,

WITH A RAZOR Operated on in the South Australia for appendicitis by a man who used a razor, George Silver, u gold prospector, has just been again operated on in a Sydney hospital for the removali In order to ensure correct re- of horsehair, wool, and a paper sults, the professor fed himself

The protest observed that this fastener from the old wound. and his two companions, and the action was taken at a time when two other blacks, on food and liquid always the British and Japanese Govern- While Silver and prospectors were at Mt. McKenzie, carefully weighed out. This was ments were negotiating settlement

and of the question. 600 miles from Port Augusta, combined with the careful trying to locate the Lasseter reef periodical weighing of themselves The Note requested the Japanese he went down with appendicitis, and the subjects.

Government urgently to instruct the Kobe authorities to desist from and submitted to an operation by

forcible exactions. Nevertheless, a man who had had veterinary

the Kobe Municipality is peralating experience, anys Austral News.

and yesterday attached and sealed a The wool and paper fastener were wound which

number of articles on the premises used to close the

of the Japan Chronicle, although I was then sewn up with herschair.

did not Interfere with the day's issue of the newspaper.-Reuter,

The perpetust lenses Japan has been a bone of conten- The tale of an exciting snake tion for many years. The lenses hunt in Belaere, a suburb of are a survival of extraterritoriality, Sydney, New South Wales is sent which was abolished by treaty in fow. The Austral News. For two days 1899. They are now

WORLD'S YOUNGEST

GRANDMOTHER

The youngest grandmother in the world was recently announced to be 29 years of age. Australia claims to have beaten the record. In Canberra, states Austral News, lives a 28 year old woman with her daughter who became a mother at fourteen.

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June 7. .76.25/32

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June 12. 70.15/32

EXCITING SNAKE

HUNT

BORE CHARMED LIFE

int

a six feet long black anake defied Austrian and German leases were

but later begun to rise. Shu then made her escape.

minster

of tho

Leung Wai-tung, shop, said he was asleep, when he was awakened by a bang. ile juniped to his feet and found the place com- pletely alight. He escaped through

the back door.

Mr. Stone's Evidence,

Mr. Stone was

then called. He said he was the general manager and

chief engineer of the Hongkong Gas Company, and had held that position for the lust three and a half years. He was formerly engineer in the City of Birmingham Gus Department, and later chief engineer in the Borough of Birkenhead Gas Department. Ito was an M10.E. and AM-I.M.E

10.

Nellie Walker, Alice Moxon, Derek Oldham, Darrell Fancourt and Chorus of Girls. Londly, Let the Trumpet Bray,

Chorus of Men. 9-9.30 p.m. From the Studio, Selections by the "Musle Makers.” 9.39-10 p.m. From the Studio, dom" by Mr. G. C. Pelham (1. M.

"Topical Talks on the United King Trade Commissioner).

10-10.30 p.m. A Programine of Brahms Works Violin Solo-Hungarian Dance

No. 2 in D Minor.

Arthur Catterall. Orchestral-Hungarian Dance No. B

in F Sharp Minor.

Royal Opera Orchestra Covent Garden. Pianoforte Solo-Rhapsody in E Flat. Benno Moisoivitch, Orchestral-Hungarian Dance No. 6, San Francisco Symphony Orch. Dealing with the Gas Company's Violin Solo-Waltz in A Flat Major. works, Mr. Stone said that the main

Isolde Mengos, works was at West Paint. On the

10.25-19.30 p.m. North side of Queen's Road thera "Old Timers"-Vocal Gems sung were the general office and manu-by "The Big Four." facturing plant, and on the south side the gas holder and the water gas

Mid-Day Press plant. At Wanchai they had two

Clone Down. small holders connected by a main to the West Point works. These two holders supplied the Peak and to some

On the to this house, as a portion of tho extent that end of the town. Kowloon alde, the works were situated asometer was projecting from in Jordan Road. They had two tank at this point Immediately built in 1923. He was not quite sure conclusion that the damage to the when the other gasometers were built, holder was at that point, The Went. Peint gasemeter was their biggest holder. It was built in 1008-D, and was put into service in 1910.

Newe

10.30 p.m. Rugby

18.35 p.m.

the

water piping pushed along the panese. The remaining foreign gasometers there, one of which was posite this house. He came to the

all attempts to dislodge it from a confiscated, and half the others crevice between two buildings. have been extinguished by sales to

In vain were long lengths, of

lenschoklers apparently demand aperture.

In vain did firemen that the Japanese Government buy poke burning oily waste into the them out. According to the Japan cavity. In vain they tried to shoot Chronicle, few of the foreign hold- it. The snake seemed to bear a ers of the lenses are now in occupa- charmed life. Hnd the aperturetion of the land. The title, how- been blacked at both ends citizens ever,, remains good,

by an authority were informed that the reptile could live for two months without food.

Finally it was despatched by a 627 neighbouring mayor, a crack shot. 68% He used Л heavy military riffe had last seon service at 364 which 1/3% Gallipoli, and a bullet from his

war haversack, 6.06% 7.444

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7.47.

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FOR WEST, NORTH AND EAST RIVERS

Copenhagen 22.304

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Montevideo

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NEXT EMPIRE CONFERENCE

$

but no

Plant Closed Down.

He hurried back to the yard on the The West Point works were under North side of Queen's Rond to close the charge of Mr. Marshall, and the down the manufacturing plant, as the Kowloon works were under Mr. Nichal Fan, was still proceeding into the Ron. Mr. Goodwin war chief assistant holder. He stopped the exhaust, to witness. The Wanchal works were while a Chinese foreman proceeded to close down the remainder of the plant. visited from West Point,

He then returned to the holder, to see European resided there.

If it was possible to get a portion of Continuing, Mr. Stono said that on it to work in order to maintain the

hogas supply. Ho sent Mfr. Marshall to, May 14, shortly before 11 a.m. was in his offico at West Point, when request that hoses be directed to No. CANBERRA SUGGESTEDs attention was drawn to a dull 13 Chung Shing Street, so that he close roaring wound. On looking out of the could examine the plates t window, he saw a mass of burning | quarters. There was also a danger gas sweep over Clarence Terrace, be-of the wall collapsing as the firat in carried in that direction, by the floor of Chung Shing Street was well strong wind. IIe immediately left alight, the office and went to the portion of the works on the South aldo of Queen's i

CENTRE

There is talk in the air of

Canberra being a possible meeting place for the next Empire Econ- omic Conference,

was deflated,

Mr. Stone said his impression was 19.40

The Federal Cabinet has before Road. He noticed that the gas holder that the top floor of No. 13 Chung Shing Street was well alight within 22.30

110

sixty seconds of the collapse and be- The River Conservancy Commission It a proposal to invite the Govern-

He climbed on top of the holder, foro Clarence Terrace was alight. He 1/03/64 for Kwangtung Province notifies that ments of the Empire to incot in

the height of water in English feet Australin so that they may discuss which was just settling down. When observed that the top floor of No. 13 in the West, North and East Rivers what basis of co-operation is to he noticed that the fronts of the matted, and formed the impression be reached the crown of the holder, Chung Shing Street was practically 1/24

aucceed the Ottawa agreement houses in Clarence Terrace were on that the gna holder had been effected June 11 June 12 This has about 18 months to run, fre. He also noticed that the end by fire at that point, and that within | West River at Shlubing 142

saya Austral Nowa, but the minis- house in Chung Shing Street

(No. sixty seconds of the collapse. North River at Taing-

ters consider that such an import- yuen. 18.4

ant conference demands plenty of North River at Samalul 10.8 East River at Shoklung.0.2

time for preparatory work.

is an follows!

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The hearing at this stage wan ad- situated in the heart of the premiser. His attention was particularly drawn l fourned until this afternoon,

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